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...ROSENBERG TRIAL. The US monopoly on atomic power ended in 1949 when Americans learned to their dismay that the Soviets had cracked the secret. They suspected that spies were to blame. In April of 1951, Federal Judge Irving Kaufman looked down at the defendants. "Plain, deliberate, contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed," he told Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. "I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb... has already caused the Communist aggression in Korea ... and who knows but that millions more of innocent' people...
Another signal of the W.C.C.'s change of direction, and the one that triggered Meyendorffs dismay, was the ouster of Swiss Reformed Theologian Lukas Vischer as head of the council's Commission on Faith and Order, which seeks ecumenical unity through theological discussion. Although Vischer personally supported the antiracism grants, he was a symbol, to increasingly influential Third World activists within the W.C.C., of an old-fashioned theological approach to ecumenism. The commission, which is the only major W.C.C. agency with official Roman Catholic members, strongly urged that Vischer be reappointed to a job he has held since...
Yale officials sunnily maintain that they will eventually meet their $370 million goal by June as contributions dribble in. But to their dismay, operating costs have risen so sharply that they now estimate they will need an additional $50 million a year in the future. Says the Yale drive's executive director, Terry Holcombe: "We've learned that we can't retreat to a peacetime posture between drives...
Feminism had the tendency to dismay some women who had just sent their last child off to college. They are ridiculed by their more liberated friends who wonder why they aren't "out working." This is not to say that plenty of former "housewives" haven't averted their husbands' dinner calls and sought out more appealing lifestyles. The damage incurred on the other end has been serious, however--the fault of overzealous and self-righteous types who want everyone to conform...
More important, the President has sworn to reduce the deficit for fiscal 1980 to $30 billion. To the dismay of some liberal advisers, he told an October meeting of Cabinet members and the White House staff that "my political future" depends on redeeming that pledge, which meant that nobody should dare bring him ideas for new programs...